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[[The video flips on to a slightly confused face, that blinks once, then gives a smile.]]

Hello, Mother, can you hear me? I think it's connected now. Can you see me?

[[a slight pause]] ...this was working last week... That update didn't break it again, did it? [[a soft sigh]] Hello, Mother? Call if you can hear me, I can't see or hear you.

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[That face. That face. Hajime remembers that face.]

[That looks exactly like the guy who transformed into the red armored jerk with the gun...]

[But maybe it's not the same guy. Maybe it's just a horrible coincidence. Maybe he shouldn't freak out.]

[So he will just try to play it as cool as possible and flip on that video feed.]

I'm pretty sure you're not reaching your mom.

[Another new person? This one seems even more confused than the rest of them. He'd feel bad for the man if his helplessness wasn't somehow... grating on his nerves.

On goes the feed.]

I think you've dialed the wrong number. Did you use the one that's been running through your head?

[He's trying for a neutral expression. What Jack is actually presenting is a tinge judgmental.]

FAQ.

Edited 2014-02-27 01:01 (UTC)

[[There's a clear hesitation because not only did he get a wrong number, he got multiple people on it and the first person who answered... he's not going to go into that right now, but this one knowing about something that's been bugging him...?

This was strange and he didn't like it. At all.]]

I must have, very sorry about that. I'll just hang up now, sorry to have been any trouble!

[[Where was the hang up button, it was normally right there...]]

[[Side eyeing that link. He may not be the most computer savvy person in his office, but after the first 3 viruss he got...

He's just... going to attempt to close that window.]]

Pop ups too... [[half muttered to himself]] I'll have to make sure to scan everything later...

No trouble... hey. Hey! Wait, wait, don't cut the feed. [Jack leans in, jabbing a finger admonishingly towards the camera.]

You're not going to learn anything if you just back away. Sit down and stay. Trust me on this.

[[There's a moment of hesitation before his hand does pull back]]

From a wrong number?

[Jack shakes his head.]

Don't think of it as the wrong number. Think of it as the right number, just at the wrong time. Tell me... have you started to remember strange things? Has anything about yourself changed?

[[Yet another pause]]

No, nothing like that at all.

[[Just that odd thought during that earthquake. But that was just stress.]]

Don't lie. You wouldn't be here if there wasn't something off.

[There's that creeping feeling of annoyance, again. He angles himself towards the camera once more.]

It's been happening to people all over this city. Something hits you, and you remember something strange, or something about yourself changes. And then the number starts running in your head. Writing that number down anywhere gets you here. The network.

[[A touch of a frown is starting to tug at his lips]]

Cracking under pressure, you mean?

[Jack's expression only grows more intense and more serious.]

Maybe. It can feel like that. They're called 'echoes' or 'pulses'. They're not always pleasant. You weren't cracking under pressure. You were remembering something.

Remembering...?

[He gives a single, curt nod.]

Remembering past lives. The people with numbers, the people on this network... they all remember having lives before this one. Maybe not very much, and maybe it's not all clear... but we've all got that in common.

[ he's just very, very confused at this point. ]

I don't think I look very much like your mother.

[[He's not the only one]]

No, you really don't. Her hair is brown...

[[All the befuddlement in his voice. A wrong number, he could understand. A wrong number that reached multiple people talking about strange things? Not so much...]]

I'm sorry, I really have no idea what's happening....

Past lives...?

[[There's some disbelief crawling into his voice now.]]

There's no such thing.

[[When the video turns on, he startles just a touch, not expecting it. The start of a smile of "finally, it's working!" is swiftly replace by utter confusion that there's an entirely different face on his screen...

and then his eyes widen in shock and he leans back, hand pressed over his heart as if it can stop the horrible feeling that's suddenly overwhelming him.

This face... he knows this face. This face he's sure he's never seen before, he knows it.

His mouth opens to say something, then closes silently.

Joker. A threat. Someone who's going to destroy everything...

How does he know this?

...Does/ he even know it? There's no way something like that could be possible.

There's a moment more before he shakes his head slightly]]

I- I must have dialed the wrong number. My apologies...

[[hang up hang up where's the hang up button... It should be right there, where was it?!]]

[Jack narrows his eyes.]

If you don't want to believe me, start scrolling around. Start reading the other things other people are saying. And while you're at it...

[He looks away from the camera and goes silent while fiddling with something, and then some text would pop up alongside the feed.]

Go here for the FAQ.

It's important. Extremely important.

[[Again, a suspect link. He eyes it a moment before deciding that no, no he really doesn't want to click that and risk another virus.]

Thank you, but no thank you. If it's all the same, I really should hang up, I told my mother I would call her tonight and I don't want her to get worried.

[[a nice, logical excuse that wasn't even a lie.]]

...decaf? No cream or sugar?

[Not that L doesn't judge people with fancy drink orders too, but god are you boring, man.]

[[...and now his computer is asking him about coffee. He didn't click the link, he shouldn't have gotten a virus just from being sent the link, right? Right?

...he should run a scan. Just in case.]]

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